Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-28
THE EAST.


ALLEGHENY CITY, Pa, was gaily deco
rated with flowers and foliage on the 18th
in honor Of the Central Saengerbund meet
. ing.
FIRE at Peekskill, N. Y, the other morn
ing, originating in the machine shop of Nay
Tor Bros. & Allen, destroyed large guam
tity of machinery and tenements The total
loss was $5O,O
THE large brick warehouse Of the Metro
politan Storage Company, Thirty-eighth
street, New York, was destroyed by fire on
the 10Th. The loss was estimated at $780,
900. During the blaze a number of fremen
were blown through the windows by an ex-
plosion and seriously injured.
AT meeting of Assembly No. 14S, green
bottle glass-blowers, at Huntington, Pa,
recently, the wages question was decided
The rate for next year will be the sixty
cent limit, less ten per cent. This is an in
crease OF seven per cent. over last year
The assembly decided on one appre ntice for
every fifteen journeymen.
The Pinkertons are credited with pre-
venting riot at West Leisenring. Pa, by
beating Hungarian with the butt-end of a
musket, the rest Of the Hungarians taking
flight.
1T now appears, from the confession of
Mr.. Fitzroy, Of Holyoke, Mass, an eve
witness to the death Of Jennie Cramer, for
whose murder the Malley boys were tried
and acquitted, that the unfortunate girl
committed suicide. His reasons for with
holding the truth during his lifetime was
that he did not desire to make public dis
graceful episode in his own life.
THE employees OF the Fishback rolling
mill, Pottsville, Pa, have struck for the
increased wages promised last April
TEN shoe shops at Beverly, Mass, have
been closed down because of trouble
among the men.
SRvENTY-THREE Hungarians sent from
New York to take the place of strikers in
the Pennsylvania coke region have refused
to work.
Owing to trouble over the employment OF
non-union man about 275 shlrtmakers
were locked out of R. K Davies & Co.'s
factory in New York City the other day.
JOHN MCNEENY, while crazed with drink
recently at Oil City, Pa, killed his wife
and fatally shot his son Peter and a police
officer named James,
THE Standard Oil Company's works at
Constable Hook, near Jersey City, N j.,
was on fire on the morning of the GOTH The
destruction was immense reaching up to
81, 000, 600
THE Hurlburt Paper Company, of South
Lee, Mass, is reported insolvent.
The New York Stock Exchange govern
ing committee met on the 10Th and elected
Mr.. r. N. Thomas vice-president, to sue
coed the late Alfred r. Hill.
IT has transpired that 125 of the Third
Avenue New York; Car Company's horses
were poisoned by cyanide of potassium, IN
stead of twenty as was first stated. Tween
ty-nine died.
De WITT 81. NEwKIRK, of Kingston, N.
Y, committed suicide recently. He was a
defaulter to the amount of $4,000.
HASTINGS & TODD, card manufacturers of
New York City, have assigned, with 81, 200
preferences.
THERE was q fi1ht of the Mammoth oeAra
works near Greensburg, Pa, the other day.
Three non-union workers were seriously
Beaten.
IT was stated in New York that Senator
Mahone's mission to induce prominent Re-
publicans to furnish money TO carry Vir-
aginia in the pending Campaign failed of its
purpose, no funds being forthcoming
TIE eight-inch guns on the new steel
cruiser Atlanta have an excessive recoil.
dangerous to the men working them. In
recent trial near Brooklyn the decks were
torn up and q sheep killed. The sheep had
been tied near the gun for experiment
ROBERT GARRETT declares that the b. g.
O. deal is on. the Syndicate not being able
to meet its engagements within the time
stated
A BULL movement has followed the re-
cent panic in the New York coffee market.
SYLvANUS CoBB, Jr., the well known
story writer, died in Hyde PARK, Mass,
on the 10th of pneumonia. He was born in
1923
THE Chicago express on the Erie road
suddenly turned q curve near Allendale,
u. Y. on the 2lst and dashed into crowd
of 1t allan laborers, fatally mangling ten or
,twelve of them. The express was one hour
Ibehiud time and the men were at work on
the track not the least apprehensive of
danger.